Image copyright AFP Image caption Opposition leader Hakainde Hichilema is facing treason charges Forty-eight Zambian MPs from the opposition UPND have been suspended for 30 days for boycotting President Edgar Lungu’s state of the nation address. They refused to attend in March as they argued Mr Lungu was not the legitimate winner of last year’s […]

Image copyright Reuters Image caption The rescued children are now being treated in a city hospital Two children have been rescued from the rubble of a collapsed seven-storey building in Kenya’s capital Nairobi, nearly 24 hours after the incident. Rescue officials say a boy and a girl are now being treated in a hospital. A […]

Image copyright Getty Images Image caption Helen Zille is a major political figure in South Africa Helen Zille, former leader of South Africa’s main opposition Democratic Alliance (DA), has publicly apologised for her tweets saying there were some positive aspects of colonialism. She said her comments in March were “insensitive to South Africans”. Ms Zille […]

Image copyright AFP Image caption France has a large military presence in its former colonies in West Africa A French soldier has been jailed for a year by a court in Paris for molesting girls aged three and five in a hotel swimming pool in Burkina Faso. Sebastien L, 40, and another soldier filmed the […]

Image copyright AFP Image caption More than 60,000 cases of rape are reported in South Africa every year A 17-year-old girl, who handed herself in to South African police, has been charged with murder after killing a man who allegedly tried to rape her. “She was on her way to a local tavern when she […]

Image copyright Reuters Image caption This picture taken in 2014 shows asylum-seekers at a Manus Island detention centre The Australian government and its contractors have offered compensation totalling A$70m (£41m; $53m) to refugees detained in Papua New Guinea. The 1,905 claimants had alleged they suffered harm while being held on PNG’s Manus Island between 2012 […]

Image copyright Anbang Insurance Group Image caption Wu Xiaohui was long thought to be one of China’s most politically-connected businessmen One of China’s best known billionaires, Wu Xiaohui, is stepping aside as chairman of Anbang Insurance. The company gave few details but said he was no longer able to fulfil his duties for “personal reasons”. […]

Image copyright Reuters Image caption Rex Tillerson was speaking at a hearing at the Senate Foreign Relations Committee The US is considering sanctions on countries that do illegal business with North Korea, US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson has warned. He said the White House would soon have to decide whether to impose “secondary sanctions” […]

Media captionUS student Otto Warmbier said he was “a poor scapegoat” before he was jailed in 2016 US student Otto Warmbier has been freed from jail in North Korea, but his parents say he has been in a coma for a year. The 22-year-old was flown to the US and landed in Ohio late on […]